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Are Free Things Worth The Effort?
July 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment
The best things in life are free, but sooner or later the government will find a way to tax them. ~ Unknown ~ [Source]
In Singapore, there is the Great Singapore Sales going on around mid year annually. In addition, for a certain amount of money spent, one will get a free gift worth a certain amount of money. Usually, it kick-starts the sales fast. People will grab everything in sight and buy them just to get the free gift that they may ultimately have no use for.
Starhub participate in The PC Show with a Lenovo S10 when one signs up for MaxOnline Express Plus. However, when the queue snakes out of the hall, is the effort to be one of the first 300 customers worth it? If one receives a free gift without doing anything, is the free gift worth it? Is there such a thing?
When a lot of effort has been poured into a particular task but the returns are low, was it worth it? Sometimes, expectations differ when one expects low effort for high returns. It creates heartache only for the person with this kind of mindset since each job needs one to set the alarm clock, try to shake the sleep out of the mind and go to work despite hating the process of squeezing through the crowded public transport on every working day.
Some free things are worth our efforts when the efforts will end with high returns. Humans are lazy. That’s why a switch was invented to turn on the lights, blenders to help with baking, coffee makers, coffee bean blender, sugarcane crushers among the various machines that have been helping mankind. Cutting down trees have been made easier just by making the effort to invent that chainsaw.
What are the free stuff that have made it worth your efforts?
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